radioactive
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Researchers there used biological accelerator spectrometry, or BioAMS, to detect radioactive markers at extremely small concentrations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
That radioactive spider that transformed Peter Parker into Spider-Man could have bitten the class moron just as easily.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Round and round it goes, turning the league radioactive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
This year marked 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident which caused a reactor to start spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
If left alone, the groundwater would continue to flow toward the sea, carrying radioactive isotopes from the reactors with it, so workers pumped hundreds of gallons of water from the reactor basements every day.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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